Author: Abena Serwaa

We would never dream of taking sacred artefacts from Christianity or Islam and placing them on our mantelpieces at home. So why do we do this with African carvings, statues and masks? Guest blogger Kirsty […]

Historian and journalist Gus Casely-Hayford comes from a prominent family line hailing from Ghana and Sierra Leone. The list includes his grandfather – lawyer, politician, pan-Africanist and journalist Joseph Ephraim Casely Hayford – and brother British fashion designer […]

As we celebrate the Ghana Society Luton’s Annual Kente Festival, guest blogger Kirsty Osei-Bempong explores another iconic facet to Ghana’s culture – the Adinkra. These symbols have long been associated with Asante culture but are […]

Did you know that since the 1650s, Denmark had had a physical presence in present-day Ghana, trading brandy and gunpowder in exchange for human cargo destined for the New World? And did you know that descendants […]